It has a square, heavy steel frame about 10 inches across, with two strong, V-shaped springs.Opening the trap on Sunday required the help of three people, Lynes said.

The tools used in Maine to trap beavers include underwater snares, drowning sets, steel leghold traps and killer-type traps that crush beavers’ necks or spinal columns.

NORFOLK — Roger Johnson and his wife were hiking near Haystack Mountain State Park when they came upon a young beaver caught in a steel trap near a small pond and instinctively went to ...

The Conibear trap, which is placed underwater, was viewed as being a lot more humane than the leg-hold beaver traps used previously.

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RURAL GRYGLA, Minn. -- A stiff dead beaver laid on the tailgate of Tim Worthington's pickup. He had just lugged the animal up the steep banks of a drainage ditch after removing it from a trap set ...

While out checking his beaver traps, Tom Yankowiak of Cook wears a beaver-fur cap he made. Yankowiak traps about 40 to 50 beavers a year under the ice and uses their fur to make mitts, caps and ...

These traps took muskrat and wolf and fox but mostly beaver, supplying the country -- and the world -- with fur for fashion and warmth.

BOSTON — As hundreds of homeowners across the state cope with flooding issues caused by beaver dams, state lawmakers are again taking aim at a 1996 ballot question which banned certain types … ...

Residents who live near Warner Park in Madison are strongly opposing Madison Parks’ decision to trap and kill beavers using drowning traps.

The debate over restricted traps in Massachusetts, “Future of moose and wildlife debated” (Telegram & Gazette, Sept. 20), tends to focus on two images: a yard flooded by a beaver dam or an ...